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George Peabody College for Teachers. 


HE Trustees of the Peabody Education Fund, 
who founded Peabody Normal College, the 
first and leading normal school of the South, and 
recently reorganized it into a Teachers College, have 
declared that it is "to serve as an educational crown 
of the systems of schools which the Southern States 
have established and are maintaining." 
Its peculiar function, therefore, may be stated in 


terms of trained educational leadership, which, at 


_ this time, as in no other, is the South's greatest 


need. It is to be to the teachers of the South what 
the Johns Hopkins, the Harvard, and other medical 
schools are to the physicians; what the Cornell, the 


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lts mission, through cooperation with other teacher- 
training agencies, will be to extend and intensify the 
instrumentalities of service in the field of teaching. 


The College will best fulfill its function: 


(1) By aiding in supplying the demand for trained 


normal school teachers, supervisors, and administrators. 


(2) By providing that higher professional training 
needed by instructors in departments of education in 


colleges and universities. 


(3) By offering to the graduates of the normal schools 


opportunity for pursuing advanced courses in education. 


(4) By extending the work of the departments of edu- 
cation by supplying a graduate school for those of their 
graduates who desire more prolonged and intensive train- 
ing. 


(5) By studying the whole problem of rural life and 
the country school and by helping the school to make 
country life more economically profitable and more humanly 
interesting. 


(6) By preparing teachers in industrial education to 
direct the schools of the South in the preparation of men 
and women for serviceable citizenship in a great industrial 


and rural section of the Nation. 


(7) By establishing such an efficient department of 
school hygiene and physical ‘education that from it may 
go to all parts of the South specially trained leaders 
to carry on public health campaigns and impart such 
information as will look to the conservation of human life 
and energy. 


(8) By further emphasizing systematic training in moral 
and religious education, that the finest life and spirit of 
the South may not depart from the schools. 


(9) By constituting itself an educational clearing house, 
through which will pass well digested data and enlightened 


pedagogical opinion. 


(10) By attracting and retaining a high order of talent 
in the profession of teaching by virtue of larger opportuni- 
ties, which will come to the more highly trained. 


(11) By preparing experts to become state high school 
inspectors and professors of secondary education in uni- 
versities, in order that they may give wise guidance in 
the development of local and state high school systems. 


(12) By equipping expert superintendents and prin- 
cipals for elementary school systems. 


(13) By providing, within the environment where they 
are to labor, educational surveyors and original investiga- 
tors who can survey the needs of childhood and suggest 
better ways of meeting them in the schools of the South. 


(14) By training experts in school administration, in the 
scientific handling of school budgets, and in the wise direc- 
tion of school legislation along economic lines for the elim- 


ination of financial waste. 


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Trustees of 


George Peabody College for Teachers 


PRESIDENT 
JUDGE EDWARD T. SANFORD, Knoxville, Tenn. 


VICE PRESIDENT 
PROF. J. B. ASWELL, Natchitoches, La. 


SECRETARY-TREASURER 
E. A. LINDSEY, Esq., Nashville, Tenn. 


CHAIRMAN OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 
JUDGE J. C. BRADFORD, Nashville, Tenn. 


DR. B. J. BALDWIN, Montgomery, Ala. 

PROF. HUGH S. BIRD, Fredericksburg, Va. 

W. A. BLAIR, Esq., Winston-Salem, N. C. 
STUART H. BOWMAN, Esg., Huntington, W. Va. 
JAMES E. CALDWELL, Esq., Nashville, Tenn. 
WHITEFOORD R. COLE, Esq., Nashville, Tenn. 
HON. J. M. DICKINSON, Nashville, Tenn. 
THOMAS B. FRANKLIN, Esq., Columbus, Miss. 


JOSEPH K. ORR, Esq., Atlanta, Ga. 
A. H. ROBINSON, Esq., Nashville, Tenn. 


BOLTON SMITH, Esq. Memphis, Tenn. , 
PROF. W. K. TATE, Columbia, S. C. 
JUDGE CLAUDE WALLER, Nashville, Tenn. 


GOV. BEN W. HOOPER, Ex-officio, 
Nashville, Tenn. 


“ Education, a debt due from present to future 
generations.” —GEORGE PEABODY 


